On Sunday, 16 December 2001 at 17:18:37 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote: > In article by Greg Lehey: > [about if and how Caldera is enforcing the Ancient UNIX > http://www2.caldera.com/offers/ancient.html. Note also > that in fact they allow access to the code via > license described at http://www2.caldera.com/offers/ancient001/ > without you first agreeing to the license...] > >> That may be easier than you think. I'm copying Warren Toomey on >> this. Warren is (a) a FreeBSD user and (b) the person who negotiated >> these contracts in the first place. Warren, Peter is thinking of >> porting the 2BSD file system (not sure whether that's UFS or the >> original UNIX file system) to FreeBSD. As Terry observes, the current >> license doesn't allow that. > > Firstly, call me crazy, but I thought the 2BSD filesystem layout was > essentially UFS, i.e i-nodes at the start, and therefore would be > pretty much the same as /sys/ufs/ufs in FreeBSD. I'll have to do a > compare of the source code and get back to you ....
One of the things I said before you came in was that that depends on the value of 2. 2.0BSD certainly didn't have ffs. > Which brings me to the question, does anybody know a good contact at > Caldera who can point us to the `right person' to negotiate on this. > I knew the guy at SCO who dealt with this, but not at Caldera. Hmm, I thought you would know. Have you asked Dion? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
